Product Description: How do urban ruins provoke their cultural revaluation? This book offers a unique sociological analysis about the social agencies of material culture and atmospheric knowledge of buildings in the making. It draws on ethnographic research in Berlin along the former Palace of the Republic, the E-Werk and the Café Moskau in order to make visible an interdisciplinary regime of design experts who have developed a professional sensorium turning the built memory of the city into an object of aesthetic inquiry...read more

Product Description: In 1955 the Supreme Court ruled that veterans of the U.S. armed forces could not be court-martialed for overseas crimes that were not detected until after they had left military service. Territorial limitations placed such acts beyond the jurisdiction of civilian courts, and there was no other American court in which they could be adjudicated...read more

Product Description: Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents and Survivors 2012 (Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents & Survivors)

Product Description: Scholars have argued about U.S. state development - in particular its laggard social policy and weak institutional capacity - for generations. Neo-institutionalism has informed and enriched these debates, but, as yet, no scholar has reckoned with a very successful and sweeping social policy designed by the federal government: the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the GI Bill...read more

Product Description: On rare occasions in American history, Congress enacts a measure so astute, so far-reaching, so revolutionary, it enters the language as a metaphor. The Marshall Plan comes to mind, as does the Civil Rights Act. But perhaps none resonates in the American imagination like the G...read more

Product Description: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are approximately 26 million veterans in the United States. In recent years, more than 1.6 million U.S. servicemen and women had tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq. When not on active duty, more than 20 percent of these vets do not have health care coverage, and many more are unaware of the hundreds of benefits to which they have access...read more

Product Description: The Changing Landscape of Veterans Affairs is an authoritative, insider's perspective on leading the national system of state and federal veterans programs. Featuring state directors of veterans affairs from across the country, this book provides a broad yet comprehensive overview of the challenges unique to protecting the benefits of our nation's heroes...read more

Product Description: Describes federal benefits available to veterans and their dependents as of January 1, 2005. Measures 9 x 6 in.

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Product Description: The paucity of scholarly literature on World War II veteran readjustment might lead one to believe these nearly sixteen million men and women simply took off their uniforms after the War and reintegrated into society with ease. Mark D...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explores the history and implementation of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, better known as the GI bill, that gave veterans unemployment benefits, educational opportunities, and home ownership (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Wildhaber, Michael E.

Explains veterans' rights and benefits under the current law as well as the processes of claims adjudication and appeals, describing the special difficulties of Vietnam-era veterans